Li served as China’s number two leader for ten years until he was replaced earlier this year
Li KeqiangLi had a sudden heart attack and died in Shanghai in the early hours on Friday morning, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.
The son of a local official in the impoverished province of Anhui, he rose up the ranks through his involvement in the Communist Youth League. By 1998 he was the country’s youngest governor, in the densely populated central province of Henan, later becoming party secretary. Li was seen as former leader Hu Jintao’s preferred successor as president, but the leadership chose Xi Jinping in 2012.
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